Black woman charged with hate crimes after reportedly calling white arresting officer 'racist a** mother******,' racial slur



A black Louisiana woman was charged with hate crimes after she was accused of calling a white Baton Rouge police officer who arrested her over the weekend a "racist a** mother******" and a racial slur, WVLA-TV reported.

Crystal Harris, 43, of Baton Rouge, was arrested Sunday and also was charged with illegal use of the 911 emergency communication system, resisting a police officer with force or violence, public intimidation and retaliation, false communication with the intent to cause an emergency response, and misrepresentation during booking, the station said.

Harris during the transport reportedly 'made multiple comments about the officer being white and that was the reason for her arrest,' the station said, citing the affidavit. They included calling the officer a 'racist a** mother******' and a 'union [N-word] boy,' WVLA reported.

Police dispatchers reportedly told the responding officer that Harris “had consistently been calling in on 911 demanding an officer come out stating that she would keep calling until one arrived on scene,” WVLA said, citing the affidavit. Dispatchers also told the officer that Harris was “very aggressive towards them during the calls," which are recorded, the station said.

The officer arrived at the scene in the 1100 block of Spanish Town Road around 6:30 a.m., WVLA said.

Turns out the same officer brought Harris to the same location previously, the station said, adding that Harris reportedly was attempting to retrieve her belongings from an apartment complex. The affidavit indicated that the officer previously advised Harris “to call the constable’s office to set a time to recover her belongings if she was not able to do so today," WVLA noted.

During the officer's Sunday encounter with Harris, the officer found her outside the complex and told her no one would help her break into the locked unit, the station said, adding that she previously had been provided with instructions on how to appropriately handle the issue.

WVLA reported that Harris was arrested at the scene on charges of misusing 911 and intimidating dispatchers, placed into a police vehicle, and transported to a first district booking site.

Harris during the transport reportedly “made multiple comments about the officer being white and that was the reason for her arrest," the station said, citing the affidavit. They included calling the officer a “racist a** mother******" and a “union [N-word] boy," WVLA reported. In addition, she reportedly said her arrest “wasn’t proper protocol," the station noted.

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Harris let the officer know she would not get out of the vehicle and, at first, did not do so.

During transport, she reportedly dared the officer “to put hands on her” and, once at the booking site, did not let herself be shackled and led into the holding area.

BRPD said the officer had to guide Harris to the holding area. She reportedly refused to be fingerprinted multiple times, according to the affidavit.

Harris on Sunday was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison; jail records examined Wednesday morning indicate she's still there.

Anything else?

Baton Rouge police in 2016 arrested a 35-year-old woman named Crystal Harris for calling 911 11 times, WBRZ-TV reported. The station said she repeatedly called 911 without requiring medical or police assistance; on the tenth call she was told that she would be arrested if she made another nonemergency 911 call. She was charged with illegal use of 911 and booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison, WBRZ said.

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SCOTUS marshal did not request that justices sign sworn affidavits in leak probe



Supreme Court Marshal Gail A. Curley said in a statement on Friday that she spoke to the justices amid the investigation into a draft opinion leak, but she never requested that they sign sworn affidavits.

"During the course of the investigation, I spoke with each of the Justices, several on multiple occasions. The Justices actively cooperated in this iterative process, asking questions and answering mine. I followed up on all credible leads, none of which implicated the Justices or their spouses. On this basis, I did not believe that it was necessary to ask the Justices to sign sworn affidavits," Curley said in the statement.

The marshal's report on the investigation noted that the probe failed to uncover who was responsible for the leak of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization draft opinion. In May 2022, Politico published the draft, which revealed that the Supreme Court was poised to strike down the 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion ruling — the court's official opinion released in June 2022 did, in fact, overturnRoe.

The report on the leak investigation stated that "all personnel who had access to the draft opinion signed sworn affidavits affirming they did not disclose the draft opinion nor know anything about who did." The report also noted, "A few of those interviewed admitted to telling their spouses about the draft opinion or vote count, so they annotated their affidavits to that effect."

But the leak remains a mystery, with the report indicating that the investigation did not determine how the Politico obtained the draft.

"At this time, based on a preponderance of the evidence standard, it is not possible to determine the identity of any individual who may have disclosed the document or how the draft opinion ended up with Politico," the report read. "While investigators and the Court’s IT experts cannot absolutely rule out a hack, the evidence to date reveals no suggestion of improper outside access. Investigators also cannot eliminate the possibility that the draft opinion was inadvertently or negligently disclosed – for example, by being left in a public space either inside or outside the building."

Slate senior writer Mark Joseph Stern suggested that the marshal had not furnished a good rationale for choosing not to ask the justices to sign affidavits. "If the marshal was so certain the justices weren't involved with the leak, she could've simply asked them to sign a sworn affidavit saying so, just like everyone else. It would not have been difficult. If she has a good reason for refusing to do so, she has not provided it!" Stern tweeted.

\u201cIf the marshal was so certain the justices weren't involved with the leak, she could've simply asked them to sign a sworn affidavit saying so, just like everyone else. It would not have been difficult. If she has a good reason for refusing to do so, she has not provided it!\u201d
— Mark Joseph Stern (@Mark Joseph Stern) 1674250172

"The logic is odd: Curley says she saw no reason to ask the Justices to sign affidavits because there were no credible leads implicating the Justices or their spouses. Were there credible leads implicating all of the Court employees who *were* asked to sign affidavits?" tweeted Steven Mazie, whose Twitter profile indicates that he covers the high court for the Economist and teaches political science.

"Note Curley's use of the phrase 'spoke with.' Her report, in contrast, repeatedly used the terms 'interview' and 'formal interview' to describe her questioning of court staff. Not using those terms here suggests that her conversations with the justices were much more informal," SCOTUSblog editor James Romoser tweeted.

\u201cThat Curley "spoke with" the justices "during" the investigation is unsurprising. But this statement strengthens the inference that the investigators did not scrutinize the justices at the same level as they scrutinized everyone else with access to the draft.\u201d
— James Romoser (@James Romoser) 1674251644

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